“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
- Hippocrates
As it relates to chronic issues, 1 in 5 people suffer from autoimmunity in the US alone, 50% of people in the US have Type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, 1 person dies every 36 seconds from cardiovascular disease in the US. Every single one of these issues affecting the whole of our population can be prevented, reversed or put into remission through diet and lifestyle modifications.
Massachusetts General, Harvard’s Teaching Hospital, is working to pass policy for culinary medicine.
Food is now being studied in labs in the same way drugs have been studied.
Our bodies have 5 key defense systems – these shields allow us to function and are almost in totality impacted by the foods we eat.
Food is science. Chemical reactions taking place when we eat govern every cell, organ and system in our bodies.
If a body is nutrient deficient, it is already in a proinflammatory state.
For every 1 message your brain sends to your gut, your gut sends 12 messages to your brain.
You are what your body can do with what you eat. If your gut is impaired, you aren’t able to absorb the nutrients coming in. Healing foods heal the gut.
Some say your gut is your 2nd brain, others say it’s your 1st.
Food can be your best defense or a slow poison.
It’s hard to beat Mother Nature.
How I work
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1 | Remove
This involves clearing the muddy waters so to speak. Once inflammatory foods have been taken out of the diet and blood sugar balanced, the body starts to regain a sense of safety. Moving out of fight or flight mode, as the body registers food sensitivities as a red alert, and into rest and digest, the body is in a position to begin healing.
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2 | Replenish
While removing possible triggers of stress, both through diet and daily incremental life shifts, we crowd out the old and nourish the body with the new. These first two steps have the ability to create real, sustainable change for a deeper level of healing. If they are not addressed, it is like building your house on sand.
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3 | Dismantle
With autoimmunity and chronic illness, research allows us to assume these things: nutrient deficiency, leaky gut/gut dysbiosis, hormone imbalance, food sensitivities and blood sugar dysregulation. Because of these assumptions, I run gut testing, as well as saliva hormone testing to see specifically where root causes lie in your unique body.
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Using functional testing, we see where the healing opportunities are within your specific body. From there, we decrease inflammation, regulate your immune system and balance hormones.
Integrating this three-tier approach of removing, replenishing and dismantling dysfunction, we get to the bottom of nagging symptoms and regulate the body back to a state of balance and wholeness.
“Food, lifestyle, sleep, environment – all more important in any non-communicable disease than any drug currently on the market.”
– Dr. Michael Ash
“I no longer have heart palpitations and have come off of all my many medications the doctors had given me to “fix” a problem they told me they didn’t understand.”
“I started struggling with severe heart palpitations 2 years ago. In that time, I was under the care of my Primary Doctor, an EG Doctor, 2 Cardiologists and a specialist in the electric function of the heart. They all performed many tests in and out of the hospital as I had in total 8 visits to the ER. One cardiologist literally told me, “I don’t know what else to do for you.”
Then I met Lauren. She explained to me what was going on in my body. And she has taken me on a healing journey over the past year. I no longer have heart palpitations and have come off of all my many medications the doctors had given me to “fix” a problem they told me they didn’t understand.
Lauren has always been available to guide me and provide the necessary resources so that I keep healing. I will always be thankful to God for placing Lauren in my path towards a complete recovery.”
— Teresa V.